ANDEAN ETHNOGRAPHY

Reading Group/Independent Study Course, Spring 2011

(Draft: 12/2/10)

Course Requirements

1. Come to regular group meetings and participate in discussion of readings.

2. Prepare brief reports (2-3 pages) on readings for each week. Reports can be a combination of
summary, analysis, and quotes/passages.

3. Read additional work (book or set of articles) relevant to your research interests and present
an overview to your fellow students at the end of the semester.

Books for Purchase1

Allen, Catherine. The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community (2003
[1988]).
Babb, Florence. Between Field and Cooking Pot: The Political Economy of Market Women in
Peru. (1998 [1989]).
Colloredo-Mansfeld, Rudi. The Native Leisure Class: Consumption and Cultural Creativity
in the Andes (1999).
De la Cadena, Marisol. Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco,
1919-1991 (2000).
Greene, Shane. Customizing Indigeneity: Paths to a Visionary Politics in Peru (1999).
Kernaghan, Richard. Coca’s Gone: Of Might and Right in the Huallaga Post-Boom (2009).
Mayer, Enrique. The Articulated Peasant: Household Economies in the Andes (2002).
Postero, Nancy. Now We are Citizens: Indigenous Politics in Postmulticultural Bolivia (2007).

Reading Schedule

*Mayer, Enrique. The Articulated Peasant: Household Economies in the Andes (2002).2

Unit 1: Historicizing the Field (~1-2)

Larson, Brooke. “Andean Communities, Political Cultures, and Markets: The Changing Contours
of a Field” (1995).

1
Copies of Babb (1998 [1989]) can likely be loaned out for the week we are reading the work. It is unlikely that we
will read more than a few chapters from De la Cadena (2000).
2
We will read chapters from Mayer’s book throughout the semester.
Mishkin, Bernard. “The Contemporary Quechua” (1944).

Murra, John. “Andean Societies” (1984).

Salomon, Frank. “The Historical Development of Andean Ethnology” (1985).

Starn, Orin. “Rethinking the Politics of Anthropology: The Case of the Andes” (1994).

Optional
Starn, Orin. “Missing the Revolution: Anthropologists and the War in Peru” (1991).

Salomon, Frank. “Andean Ethnology in the 1970s: A Retrospective” (1982).

Unit 2: Cultural Ecology (~3)

Murra, John. “El control vertical de un máximo de pisos ecológicos en la economía de las
sociedades andinas” (1972).

Murra, John. “The Limits and Limitations of the ‘Vertical Archipelago’ in the Andes” (1985).

Van Buren, Mary. “Re-thinking the Vertical Archipelago: Ethnicity, Exchange, and History in
the South Central Andes” (1996).

Orlove, Benjamin. Lines in the Water: Nature and Culture at Lake Titicaca (2002). (selected
chapters)

Unit 3: Modernization and Applied Anthropology (~4)

Babb, Florence. “Women and Men in Vicos, Peru: A Case of Unequal Development” (1985).

Dobyns, Henry, Paul Doughty, and Harold Lasswell (eds.). Peasants Power and Applied Social
Science (1971). (selected chapters)

Pribilsky, Jason. “Development and the ‘Indian Problem’ in the Cold War Andes: Indigenismo,
Science, and Modernization in the Making of the Cornell-Peru Project at Vicos” (2009).

Stein, William. Hualcan: Life in the Highlands of Peru (1961). (selected chapters)
Unit 4: Symbolic Anthropology (~5-6)

Allen, Catherine. The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community (2003
[1988]).

Harris, Olivia. “Complementarity and Conflict: An Andean View of Women and Men” (2000).

Harris, Olivia. “Ethnic Identities and Market Relations: Indians and Mestizos in the Andes”
(1995).

Isbell, Billie Jean. To Defend Ourselves: Ritual and Ecology in an Andean Village (1977).
(selected chapters)

Unit 5: Gender and Political Economy (~7-8)

Babb, Florence. Between Field and Cooking Pot: The Political Economy of Market Women in
Peru. (1989).

Bourque, Susan and Kay Warren. Women of the Andes: Patriarchy and Social Change in
Two Peruvian Towns (1981). (selected chapters)

Seligmann, Linda. “To Be In Between: The Cholas as Market Women” (1989).

Weismantel, Mary. Food, Gender, and Poverty in the Ecuadorian Andes (1988).

Unit 6: Politics of Race and Nation (~9-10)

Canessa, Andrew, ed. Natives Making Nation: Gender, Indigeneity, and the State in the Andes
(2005). (selected chapters)
De la Cadena, Marisol. “Women Are ‘More Indian’: Ethnicity and Gender in a Community near
Cuzco” (1995).

De la Cadena, Marisol. Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco,
1919-1991 (2000). (selected chapters)

De la Cadena, Marisol. “Indigenous Cosmopolitics in the Andes: Conceptual Reflections Beyond

‘Politics’” (2010).

Goodale, Mark. “Reclaiming Modernity: Indigenous Cosmopolitanism and the Coming of the
Second Revolution in Bolivia.” (2006)
Mahier, Jean Muteba. “Blackness, the Racial/Spatial Order, Migrations, and Miss Ecuador
1995-96” (1998).

Poole, Deborah. Vision, Race, and Modernity: A Visual Economy of the Andean Image World.
(1997). (selected chapters)

Wade, Peter. “Race in Latin America” (2008).

Weismantel, Mary. Cholas and Pishtacos: Stories of Race and Sex in the Andes (2002). (selected
chapters)

Whitten, Norman. “The Longue Durée of Racial Fixity and the Transformative Conjunctures of
Racial Blending” (2007).

Unit 7: Recent Contributions (~11-14)

Kernaghan, Richard. Coca’s Gone: Of Might and Right in the Huallaga Post-Boom (2009).

Colloredo-Mansfeld, Rudi. The Native Leisure Class: Consumption and Cultural Creativity
in the Andes (1999)

Postero, Nancy. Now We are Citizens: Indigenous Politics in Postmulticultural Bolivia (2007).

Greene, Shane. Customizing Indigeneity: Paths to a Visionary Politics in Peru (2009).